In the UK, what is the difference between a lorry and a truck?

ankhsunamun1

Not much. In the UK we use the term Lorry, but in the USA for example, you use the term Truck. BOTH words can be used but mean the same thing .............. Jun 10 12, 3:42 PM

davejacobs

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Phrases-and-Sayings/Question519228.html There seems to be a ot of diascussion about these words, but on the whole they are interchangeable. Different people have different mental pictures when one or other of the words is used. "Truck" to me conjures up thoughts of huge American style vehicles, aka juggernauts or pantechnicons, whereas "lorry" is a friendlier word for smaller English load carriers. Truck is sometimes mildly pejorative, perhaps from connection with the phrase "I'll have no truck with that". Jun 11 12, 12:57 AM

sportsherald

The automotive vehicles have been addressed here already, but I notice that Thomas the Tank Engine's "Troublesome Trucks" haven't yet been mentioned- what North Americans typically call a boxcar or freight car: "World English Dictionary truck 1 (tr?k) - n 1. ( Brit ) a vehicle for carrying freight on a railway; wagon 2. ( US ), ( Canadian ), ( Austral ) Also called (esp in Britain): lorry a large motor vehicle designed to carry heavy loads, esp one with a flat platform..." -from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/truck?s=t See also http://ttte.wikia.com/wiki/Troublesome_Trucks Jun 13 12, 11:06 PM